Marvel Comics have a good grasp of the human psyche.
Create super-humans, with the appearance of common-man, but with powers we hairless chimps desire, yet can never realise.
Super-Humans, with moral a compass pointing only to good.
Modern-day Greek Gods, created by-in-large, for an audience that can read and write, fully aware of their humble place in the scheme of things – but which still craves that innate , eternal human desire, to ‘fly like a bird’ , have ‘the strength of an elephant’ etc.
Good to triumph over evil.
The desire to be ‘all-powerful’, more than, mere human.
Now, run-through-your-mind, the attributes of these Super-Heroes.
Then think-about what attributes, one would give a God, if you were on the project-team at Marvel creating ‘God, the Ultimate Super-hero’?
X-ray vision?
The strength of twenty elephants?
The power, to read minds?
The same-way a comic-creator plays on human-frailties in creating a super-hero, or villain for that matter, is virtually identical to the process all cultures, undertook when the human-mind came to hammering-out their god or deity.
With one important addition, no comic entity can match.
That’s the power to defy death.
Create super-humans, with the appearance of common-man, but with powers we hairless chimps desire, yet can never realise.
Super-Humans, with moral a compass pointing only to good.
Modern-day Greek Gods, created by-in-large, for an audience that can read and write, fully aware of their humble place in the scheme of things – but which still craves that innate , eternal human desire, to ‘fly like a bird’ , have ‘the strength of an elephant’ etc.
Good to triumph over evil.
The desire to be ‘all-powerful’, more than, mere human.
Now, run-through-your-mind, the attributes of these Super-Heroes.
Then think-about what attributes, one would give a God, if you were on the project-team at Marvel creating ‘God, the Ultimate Super-hero’?
X-ray vision?
The strength of twenty elephants?
The power, to read minds?
The same-way a comic-creator plays on human-frailties in creating a super-hero, or villain for that matter, is virtually identical to the process all cultures, undertook when the human-mind came to hammering-out their god or deity.
With one important addition, no comic entity can match.
That’s the power to defy death.
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